Some spring Flowers on a recent walk
Silver Birch
I do love a silver Birch tree. There is something fascinating about these trees and their peeling bark. I found…
And then there were two!
I have had 2 Buzzards over the Garden most days for the last week. Are they a pair? Will they…
Sights of Spring
Lots of Spring Flowers out this week
Spring has Sprung
March dawns and its time for the first invertebrate surveys on my patch. So on a rare sunny day I…
Rutland Water
Listened to a talk on Rutland Water yesterday which reminded me what an excellent place for wildlife and of my…
The return of the Buzzard
In mid-December I posted about a buzzard which I had seen regularly over the garden. I thought it might be…
Northern Pintail
The Northern Pintail is one of my favourite ducks. The population in the UK is stable, unlike many parts of…
The return of the Pelican
Hot on the heels of the announcement about the planned White Stork reintroduction in Dagenham comes news of another proposed…
Mallard
A common duck of parks and lakes, which is resident across the UK, although rarer in upland areas. There are…
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